Rainer Maria Rilke Quote

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"Tout est gestation et ensuite mise au monde."

Translations

“A good marriage is that in which each partner appoints the other as guardian of their solitude.”

Rainer Maria Rilke

“Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.”

“My life is not this steeply sloping hour, in which you see me hurrying.”

“Everything is gestation and then bringing forth.”

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